Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program
Anesthesiology
Dr. Paul J. Christo, MD
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Paul Christo practices Anesthesiology. He studied medicine at University of Louisville School of Medicine. University of Louisville School of Medicine is ranked 83 in research and 0 in primary care medicine He received 6 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Top Doctors:Baltimore Area", "Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore", "Super Doctor" and "Top MD". Paul J. Christo, MD is also published. He has 42 publications published. The lastest publication: "Possible role of endogenous ouabain-like compounds in the pathophysiology of bipolar illness.' He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Review of the Uses of Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Chronic Pain Management.
- Dynamic Pain Phenotypes are Associated with Spinal Cord Stimulation-Induced Reduction in Pain: A Repeated Measures Observational Pilot Study.
- Applying JIT Principles to Resident Education to Reduce Patient Delays: A Pilot Study in an Academic Medical Center Pain Clinic.
- Chronic Pain Perspectives: Targeting systemic inflammation in patients with obesity-related pain: Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome: An often overlooked but treatabl...
- Complementary and alternative treatments for chronic pelvic pain.
- Does Pain Score in Response to a Standardized Subcutaneous Local Anesthetic Injection Predict Epidural Steroid Injection Outcomes in Patients with Lumbosacral Radiculo...
- Positive recognition program increases compliance with medication reconciliation by resident physicians in an outpatient clinic.
- Effect of MRI on Treatment Results or Decision Making in Patients With Lumbosacral Radiculopathy Referred for Epidural Steroid Injections: A Multicenter, Randomized Co...
- A systematic review of randomized trials of long-term opioid management for chronic non-cancer pain.
- Urine drug testing in chronic pain.
- Effectiveness of long-term opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain.
- Updated perspectives on neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome.
- Effective treatments for pain in the older patient.
- Spinal cord stimulators: typical positioning and postsurgical complications.
- Intrathecal catheter granuloma associated with continuous sufentanil infusion.
- Single CT-guided chemodenervation of the anterior scalene muscle with botulinum toxin for neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome.
- The effect of morphine on glial cells as a potential therapeutic target for pharmacological development of analgesic drugs.
- Chronic pain in torture victims.
- Incidence and root cause analysis of wrong-site pain management procedures: a multicenter study.
- Thoracic outlet syndrome secondary to localized scleroderma treated with botulinum toxin injection.
- Interventional therapies for controlling pelvic pain: what is the evidence?
- Debating "interventions" for chronic axial low back pain.
- Independent Medical Examinations: facts and fallacies.
- Physician impairment: is recovery feasible?
- The influence of prescription monitoring programs on chronic pain management.
- Obstructed catheter connection pin discovered during intrathecal baclofen pump exchange.
- Cancer pain and analgesia.
- Interventional pain treatments for cancer pain.
- The effect of opioid dose and treatment duration on the perception of a painful standardized clinical stimulus.
- Clinical predictors of success and failure for lumbar facet radiofrequency denervation.
- Pain management in trauma patients.
- Opioid effectiveness and side effects in chronic pain.
- Current management of postherpetic neuralgia.
- Current perspectives on intrathecal drug delivery.
- Assessment of methodologic quality of randomized trials of interventional techniques: development of an interventional pain management specific instrument.
- CT-guided injection of the anterior and middle scalene muscles: technique and complications.
- Possible role of endogenous ouabain-like compounds in the pathophysiology of bipolar illness.
- Post-herpetic neuralgia in older adults: evidence-based approaches to clinical management.
- Strategies for postoperative pain management.
- Opioid effectiveness, addiction, and depression in chronic pain.
- Complex regional pain syndrome: diagnostic controversies, psychological dysfunction, and emerging concepts.
Schools
Univ Of Louisville Sch Of Med
Johns Hopkins Bayview Med Center
Ma Gen HospHarvard Med School
Johns Hopkins University School MedJohns Hopkins Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Anesthesiology
- Pain Medicine Anesthesiology
Accepted Insurances
- Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
- Cigna
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health Care
- Emblem Health
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Geisinger Health Plan
- Golden Rule
- Choice Care PPO
- Kaiser Permanente
- MedHealthInsurance
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- PHCS Network PPO
- Tricare
- United Healthcare
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Top Doctors:Baltimore Area
- Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Johns Hopkins University -
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1093767980 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | CHRISTO | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | PAUL | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 212870005 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MD | |
| Specialty Description | Interventional Pain Management | |
| Total Claim Count | 103.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 26.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 25.24 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1093767980 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | CHRISTO |
| First Name Of The Provider | PAUL |
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